Saturday, February 29, 2020
Jesus Christ is Everything!
There is a video that sounds like a Christian one, I posted it yesterday to watch it later. I had to remove it because as I watched it much of the bible was quoted but not once was Jesus Christ mentioned as the way to God the Father. I don't know who made the video but I am always suspect when God is spoken of but Jesus Christ is never mentioned.
I took the video down not because bad things were in it but because Jesus Christ was not mentioned as the way to salvation. It was heavily focused on sin or good deeds as though these were the ways to gain salvation.
No one gains salvation through good deeds, they become born again by trusting in Christ as the payment for their sin. After this happens Christ comes to live in us changing us into an entirely new creation. We are no longer the same person we were before.
Then after this Christ in us begins the cleansing process, the residue of a sinful nature is chipped away at as we confess our sin, He then forgives and cleanses us from it.
1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
We have to confess to be cleansed, just as any relationship must include confession and forgiveness. If one of these elements is left out then the relationship cannot be restored.
If we sin as born again believers and do not confess we will regress in our walk. The more we confess with each onset of sinful attitude or action, the more we lose interest in that sin. When we do not confess out of pride, then God will not hear our prayers, we hinder the relationship and the Holy Spirit in us goes silent until we confess.
James 4:1-10
1 "What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
God disciplines those who are born again when they sin.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"
I took the video down not because bad things were in it but because Jesus Christ was not mentioned as the way to salvation. It was heavily focused on sin or good deeds as though these were the ways to gain salvation.
No one gains salvation through good deeds, they become born again by trusting in Christ as the payment for their sin. After this happens Christ comes to live in us changing us into an entirely new creation. We are no longer the same person we were before.
Then after this Christ in us begins the cleansing process, the residue of a sinful nature is chipped away at as we confess our sin, He then forgives and cleanses us from it.
1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
We have to confess to be cleansed, just as any relationship must include confession and forgiveness. If one of these elements is left out then the relationship cannot be restored.
If we sin as born again believers and do not confess we will regress in our walk. The more we confess with each onset of sinful attitude or action, the more we lose interest in that sin. When we do not confess out of pride, then God will not hear our prayers, we hinder the relationship and the Holy Spirit in us goes silent until we confess.
James 4:1-10
1 "What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
God disciplines those who are born again when they sin.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"
Stubbornness Leads to Hell
There seems to be a tactic for those who don't like to listen. Just as with some children having been warned if they live a certain way bad things will happen to them. Then when the bad things come because they didn't listen, they claim their parent didn't warn them. I have heard this story from parents who felt frustrated for being accused of not teaching their children something they knew they did teach them.
The "gnashing of teeth" the bible speaks about is the gritting of the teeth by people who remain angry that God assigned them to hell. Even though they made the choice to go to hell because they refused to listen or believe in Christ, they blame others as though they had no choice in the matter. There is no excuse for choosing to go to hell by refusing Christ. Everyone who becomes born again by believing in Christ chooses it, they are getting what they chose.
Rebellious people often want to do things their own way even if it ruins their life or their eternity. Yes, it is irrational and stubborn, bringing only misery on themselves. Those who trust in Christ do it because they know what He is offering, eternal life with a perfect love in paradise.
Since God created us He knows what is best for us and what makes us the most joyful. Parents get a glimpse of how God must feel when people reject Him to have their own way only to end up ruined.
Why does this happen, rational thinking people figure it out, its pretty simple. The devil deceives them, when God or man warns them they do not listen because what they are doing appeals to their emotions and their fleshly fallen nature. They refuse to think independently of their emotions and tricks of the devil. They do not consult with God to find the truth. The more they ignore God and enjoy foolishness the less likely they are to be convinced that what they do destroys them.
The cement of rebellion solidifies in their minds so much so that they can no longer get back any rational thinking if it were ever there.
There is an old saying; "they cut their own nose off to spite their face."
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
The "gnashing of teeth" the bible speaks about is the gritting of the teeth by people who remain angry that God assigned them to hell. Even though they made the choice to go to hell because they refused to listen or believe in Christ, they blame others as though they had no choice in the matter. There is no excuse for choosing to go to hell by refusing Christ. Everyone who becomes born again by believing in Christ chooses it, they are getting what they chose.
Rebellious people often want to do things their own way even if it ruins their life or their eternity. Yes, it is irrational and stubborn, bringing only misery on themselves. Those who trust in Christ do it because they know what He is offering, eternal life with a perfect love in paradise.
Since God created us He knows what is best for us and what makes us the most joyful. Parents get a glimpse of how God must feel when people reject Him to have their own way only to end up ruined.
Why does this happen, rational thinking people figure it out, its pretty simple. The devil deceives them, when God or man warns them they do not listen because what they are doing appeals to their emotions and their fleshly fallen nature. They refuse to think independently of their emotions and tricks of the devil. They do not consult with God to find the truth. The more they ignore God and enjoy foolishness the less likely they are to be convinced that what they do destroys them.
The cement of rebellion solidifies in their minds so much so that they can no longer get back any rational thinking if it were ever there.
There is an old saying; "they cut their own nose off to spite their face."
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Friday, February 28, 2020
The Narcissistic Liberals
For those liberals who think homemakers cannot think for themselves.
Those who follow the liberal agenda are the ones who do not think for themselves. They are more concerned about impressing people than they are about taking care of important matters in their families.
Liberals elevate women who go into the teaching profession as having a career and yet the women at home are teaching, as well as many other diverse jobs that are never spoken of by the liberals, I guess it's the paycheck and prestige that the liberals covet.
Liberals are not satisfied speaking for themselves and doing what they wish to do, they must mock and intimidate women who have made a different choice than they.
Liberals are basically narcissists, they cannot validate anyone who is not just like them. They tend to pretend that all women want what they want and should do what they do. They even lie and "speak for all women", when they are in a public forum.
I am here to tell you that women's libbers do not speak for me. I know many other women who feel as I do about this, they have told me so. We are women who think for ourselves and are not intimidated into doing what others do just to appear superior or special. We are content to live and believe as we choose no matter what anyone else thinks.
Narcissistic liberals hate those who have proven to be happy being homemakers and supporters of their husbands and children. Have you ever asked why women's libbers must work to convince women to leave the duties of their homes, place their children in the hands of others to teach them and neglect the support of their husbands? Its really quite simple, the devil hates families. Women's libbers are controlled by the devil. They think their thoughts are their own but in fact, they have been whispered to just as Eve was in the garden where the devil convinced her to distrust God and all His ways.
For as long as mankind has been around the devil has worked to turn Adam and Eve against each other and against God through selfishness and bondage to sin.
If the devil can fool the people into thinking they should hate their God-given roles in favor of something more exotic, he will manage to move them out of their roles and into the trap that brings bondage, while convincing them they are freer. It's an illusion that the devil foists on anyone who is weak-minded. He uses peer pressure on those who are more invested in being liked or seen as special than they understand the blessing of the family.
Women are in bondage more than ever in our culture. When they work for someone else in a career they must obey the boss to keep their job. Why is this any less bondage than managing a household?
A woman at home makes her own schedule, shops when she pleases for the goods for the household, decorates, meal plans make the rules for the household as well as everything else that needs to be taken care of within the household. She also does volunteer work, encourages those within her household to excel in whatever their personal bent happens to be. She works alongside her husband in his ventures.
It is a myth that the career woman is freer than the homemaker. The homemaker according to the Proverbs 31 woman is very creative and makes many of her own decisions. She consults with her husband in some areas but is the manager of the home. And he consults with her at times, they are a team. His part is to earn the money and run the government and her job is to be the help in these accomplishments. When a woman does her job at home her husband is freed up to dedicate his time to these other things. He trusts her to run the household while he is running a business.
Her husband does not dictate what she can and cannot do but she consults with him as anyone in any position would do to clarify needs and responsibilities. The husband also needs to consult with his wife at times to see a perspective he may not have. Together they are a stronger force than if each one did only their own thing. No one, no matter what job it is, works completely alone without input from others.
The husband is the head of the household, he leads by teaching and kindness, not by coercion or intimidation. She follows her husband when he is obeying God and corrects him when he steps off the path to help him return to the path. The husband does the same for his wife. No man or woman is an island unto themselves. All members of a team work together if they are to win the prize.
The devil loves to take what is good and productive and destroy it. One of his names is the destroyer, Abaddon in Hebrew meaning "destroyer."
In these days of apostasy, the devil has attempted to make believers feel foolish about doing what is right through the mocking and intimidation of the unsaved. Sadly we see this within the church too. Even more disturbing is that Christians have fallen into many of the same traps.
Those who are mostly focused on this world and worldly success will pressure others to follow the culture. If you find yourself being demeaned, mocked and avoided for your choice to obey God, you can count it all joy that you are obeying Him.
James 1:2-8
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
Those who follow the liberal agenda are the ones who do not think for themselves. They are more concerned about impressing people than they are about taking care of important matters in their families.
Liberals elevate women who go into the teaching profession as having a career and yet the women at home are teaching, as well as many other diverse jobs that are never spoken of by the liberals, I guess it's the paycheck and prestige that the liberals covet.
Liberals are not satisfied speaking for themselves and doing what they wish to do, they must mock and intimidate women who have made a different choice than they.
Liberals are basically narcissists, they cannot validate anyone who is not just like them. They tend to pretend that all women want what they want and should do what they do. They even lie and "speak for all women", when they are in a public forum.
I am here to tell you that women's libbers do not speak for me. I know many other women who feel as I do about this, they have told me so. We are women who think for ourselves and are not intimidated into doing what others do just to appear superior or special. We are content to live and believe as we choose no matter what anyone else thinks.
Narcissistic liberals hate those who have proven to be happy being homemakers and supporters of their husbands and children. Have you ever asked why women's libbers must work to convince women to leave the duties of their homes, place their children in the hands of others to teach them and neglect the support of their husbands? Its really quite simple, the devil hates families. Women's libbers are controlled by the devil. They think their thoughts are their own but in fact, they have been whispered to just as Eve was in the garden where the devil convinced her to distrust God and all His ways.
For as long as mankind has been around the devil has worked to turn Adam and Eve against each other and against God through selfishness and bondage to sin.
If the devil can fool the people into thinking they should hate their God-given roles in favor of something more exotic, he will manage to move them out of their roles and into the trap that brings bondage, while convincing them they are freer. It's an illusion that the devil foists on anyone who is weak-minded. He uses peer pressure on those who are more invested in being liked or seen as special than they understand the blessing of the family.
Women are in bondage more than ever in our culture. When they work for someone else in a career they must obey the boss to keep their job. Why is this any less bondage than managing a household?
A woman at home makes her own schedule, shops when she pleases for the goods for the household, decorates, meal plans make the rules for the household as well as everything else that needs to be taken care of within the household. She also does volunteer work, encourages those within her household to excel in whatever their personal bent happens to be. She works alongside her husband in his ventures.
It is a myth that the career woman is freer than the homemaker. The homemaker according to the Proverbs 31 woman is very creative and makes many of her own decisions. She consults with her husband in some areas but is the manager of the home. And he consults with her at times, they are a team. His part is to earn the money and run the government and her job is to be the help in these accomplishments. When a woman does her job at home her husband is freed up to dedicate his time to these other things. He trusts her to run the household while he is running a business.
Her husband does not dictate what she can and cannot do but she consults with him as anyone in any position would do to clarify needs and responsibilities. The husband also needs to consult with his wife at times to see a perspective he may not have. Together they are a stronger force than if each one did only their own thing. No one, no matter what job it is, works completely alone without input from others.
The husband is the head of the household, he leads by teaching and kindness, not by coercion or intimidation. She follows her husband when he is obeying God and corrects him when he steps off the path to help him return to the path. The husband does the same for his wife. No man or woman is an island unto themselves. All members of a team work together if they are to win the prize.
The devil loves to take what is good and productive and destroy it. One of his names is the destroyer, Abaddon in Hebrew meaning "destroyer."
In these days of apostasy, the devil has attempted to make believers feel foolish about doing what is right through the mocking and intimidation of the unsaved. Sadly we see this within the church too. Even more disturbing is that Christians have fallen into many of the same traps.
Those who are mostly focused on this world and worldly success will pressure others to follow the culture. If you find yourself being demeaned, mocked and avoided for your choice to obey God, you can count it all joy that you are obeying Him.
James 1:2-8
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
The Holocaust of 1944!!!
When we visited the holocaust museum in Israel it was absolutely haunting as we stood in a darkened domed room. Every two seconds or so a face of one of the children would light up on the ceiling and their name was called out. I cried as I watched each face come upon that dome. There were so many children, only the devil could do a thing like this. I am convinced those little ones are with God today and perhaps one day we will meet them in heaven.
History does repeat because the generation who were not alive at the time do not take it nearly as seriously as the one who experienced that time in history. I was born only a few years after all this mess, but I heard about it many times as the television showed what happened after the war.
The most astounding film I ever saw, the most gruesome and devastating I ever saw was called; "Let My People Go."
I was familiar with bullying most of my life but this was beyond human bullying it was demonic.
History does repeat because the generation who were not alive at the time do not take it nearly as seriously as the one who experienced that time in history. I was born only a few years after all this mess, but I heard about it many times as the television showed what happened after the war.
The most astounding film I ever saw, the most gruesome and devastating I ever saw was called; "Let My People Go."
I was familiar with bullying most of my life but this was beyond human bullying it was demonic.
ON THIS DAY IN 1944, 800 GYPSY CHILDREN ARE GASSED AT AUSCHWITZ
The Holy Spirit Our Righteousness
Anyone who has the Holy Spirit will be convicted immediately of their sin.
However, if we ignore Him He can go silent and allow the consequences of our stubbornness to teach us.
Our prayers will not be answered as long as we are in sin and we will regress in wisdom. I have seen it so many times, that believers who will not listen to a rebuke from God's word suddenly seem to have lost their discernment and the right-thinking until the consequences become so big that they can no longer ignore the discipline from God through consequences.
If the sin is not dealt with before they die then there are lost rewards in heaven.
1 Corinthians 2:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 their work will be shown for what it is because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.
15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
2 Corinthians 5:10
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil."
Unsaved people will be judged and go to hell for not trusting in Christ. The born again believers will be judged according to their rewards not according to salvation. Those deeds done by Christ in us will remain, anything done in the flesh will burn off and not be counted for a reward.
Even good deeds that God never told us to do will not be counted. Only those deeds that Christ did in us will be counted.
James 1:12 (ESV)
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Some people will have little reward and others a lot, that decision is entirely up to God.
As for me, I want to bless God as much as I can just because I love Him because He loved me so much that He died to pay for my sin. There is no greater love than this!!!
John 15:12-15 "12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.…"
However, if we ignore Him He can go silent and allow the consequences of our stubbornness to teach us.
Our prayers will not be answered as long as we are in sin and we will regress in wisdom. I have seen it so many times, that believers who will not listen to a rebuke from God's word suddenly seem to have lost their discernment and the right-thinking until the consequences become so big that they can no longer ignore the discipline from God through consequences.
If the sin is not dealt with before they die then there are lost rewards in heaven.
1 Corinthians 2:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 their work will be shown for what it is because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.
15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
2 Corinthians 5:10
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil."
Unsaved people will be judged and go to hell for not trusting in Christ. The born again believers will be judged according to their rewards not according to salvation. Those deeds done by Christ in us will remain, anything done in the flesh will burn off and not be counted for a reward.
Even good deeds that God never told us to do will not be counted. Only those deeds that Christ did in us will be counted.
James 1:12 (ESV)
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Some people will have little reward and others a lot, that decision is entirely up to God.
As for me, I want to bless God as much as I can just because I love Him because He loved me so much that He died to pay for my sin. There is no greater love than this!!!
John 15:12-15 "12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.…"
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